TIMELINE: Iranian election and aftermath
(Reuters) - Here is a summary of the main developments since Iran's June 12 presidential election:
June 13 - Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wins election with nearly 63 percent of vote, authorities say. Reformist challenger Mirhossein Mousavi has 34 percent. Mousavi calls result a "dangerous charade." Thousands of protesters clash with police.
June 14 - Mousavi asks Guardian Council to annul election.
June 15 - Seven killed during march by Mousavi supporters in Tehran, state media says. There are also demonstrations in the cities of Rasht, Orumiyeh, Zahedan and Tabriz.
June 16 - Thousands of pro-Mousavi demonstrators march in northern Tehran. Ahmadinejad's supporters mobilize thousands of demonstrators in central Tehran.
-- Authorities ban foreign journalists from leaving their offices to cover street protests.
June 17 - Thousands march in central Tehran.
-- Ahmadinejad defends legitimacy of the vote in a cabinet meeting saying it "posed a great challenge to the West's democracy," Mehr news agency reports.
June 18 - Thousands of Mousavi's backers rally in Tehran to mourn those killed in the mass protests.
June 19 - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says protest leaders will be responsible for any bloodshed if rallies continue against the election, which he says Ahmadinejad won fairly by 11 million votes.
June 20 - Riot police are deployed to disperse groups of several hundred Iranians who gathered across Tehran.
-- A suicide bomber blows himself up near the shrine of Iran's revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency reports.
-- State television says more than 450 people are detained during clashes in Tehran in which at least 10 people are killed including Neda Agha-Soltan. Graphic footage of her death is seen around the world on the Internet.
June 21 -- Mousavi urges supporters to continue protests.
-- Ahmadinejad accuses the United States and Britain of interfering in Iran's affairs.
June 22 -- Hardline Revolutionary Guards say they will "firmly confront in a revolutionary way rioters and those who violate the law." Police break up a protest in Tehran.
June 23 - Guardian Council again rules out annulment of the poll, saying there have been no major polling irregularities. Riot police and Basij militia in Tehran ward off mass protests.
-- U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States is "appalled and outraged" by Iran's crackdown.
-- Britain expels two Iranian diplomats after two of its diplomats are expelled from Iran.
June 24 - Iran pursues a crackdown to suppress any unrest.
June 25 - Ahmadinejad accuses Obama of behaving like his predecessor (George W. Bush) toward Iran and says there is not much point in talking to Washington unless the U.S. president apologises.
-- Seventy professors are detained after meeting Mousavi, his website says.
-- State television says eight Basij militiamen were killed by "rioters" during the protests. State media previously had said 20 people were killed in the marches.
June 26 - The Guardian Council says it has found no major violations in the election, which it described as the "healthiest" since 1979.
-- Hardline cleric Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts, calls for the execution of leading "rioters."
-- G8 foreign ministers say in a statement they deplore the post-election violence and it should be settled soon through democratic dialogue. Russia says it is seriously concerned by the use of force in Iran.
June 28 - Mousavi meets with a Guardian Council committee.
-- Authorities in Tehran detain several local British embassy staff for involvement in the unrest, the semi-official Fars news agency says. Britain calls the arrests "harassment and intimidation" and demands their release.
June 29 - A partial vote recount begins. Pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi, fourth in the official count, reiterates his call for the vote to be annulled.
-- Iran says five out of nine detained British embassy local staff are released, four held for questioning.
-- Ahmadinejad calls for a judicial inquiry into what he called the "suspicious" shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan.
